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 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.ischema;

/**
 * Objects that implement this interface can
 * have attributes.
 */
public interface ISchemaAttributeProvider {
	/**
	 * Returns an attribute definition if one with the matching name is found
	 * in this provider.
	 * @return attribute object or <samp>null</samp> if none with the matching name is found.
	 */
	public ISchemaAttribute getAttribute(String name);

	public int getAttributeCount();

	public ISchemaAttribute[] getAttributes();
}
